Witold Byalynitsky-Birulia

Belorussian painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Kajetan Byalynitsky-Birulia in Krynki in Mohilev Province (1872). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev (1885–89) and under Sergei Korovin, Vasily Polenov and Illarion Pryanishnikov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1889–97). Painted melancholic and romantic “mood landscapes” and Impressionist works (1900s). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1904) and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922). Academician (1908). Honoured Artist of Russia (1937), People’s Artist of Belorussia (1944) and RSFSR (1947). Full member of the Academy of Artists of the USSR (1947). Died in Moscow (1957). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1891). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Moscow Fellowship of Artists (1897–1900, 1903), Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1897–1900, 1906, 1907), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1899–1918), Izograf (1918), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922, 1923), Society of Realist Artists (1928), international exhibitions in Munich (1911, gold medal) and Barcelona (1912, gold medal) and one-man shows in Moscow (1936, 1937, 1944, 1947).